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My Zotac 980ti AMP! Extreme that I dropped 700 bucks on is whining like crazy lately even while idling, really high pitched almost out of hearing range I reckon but I very much dislike it.

Actually have had 3 different power supplies on this card and the same thing. I'm wondering if Zotac will let me RMA this thing on account of coil whine? Newegg won't RMA but I think Zotac will.

 

You can always try, but usually coil whine isnt covered under warranty as its not actually a faulty card, its just a noise :c

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Perhaps try running F@H for a couple days straight? It nearly eliminated coil whine on every card I have tried

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My EVGA 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0 has the same problem. 

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[iamdarkyoshi]

shit dude I've been running it for 5 minutes and it's gone

whut

[alphaproject]

Why would that eliminate coil whine?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Why would that eliminate coil whine?

You are driving the coils quite hard and they pretty much "wear in" so to speak from the heavy load. The windings vibrate around a bit (which is where the noise comes from) and then eventually make themselves happy. I am not sure of the exact physics behind it, all I know is that it will usually help, in more ways than one

[alphaproject]

So gaming for hours upon hours won't do it or benchmarks?  It has to be this folding thing to fix it?

[iamdarkyoshi]

So gaming for hours upon hours won't do it or benchmarks?  It has to be this folding thing to fix it?

Folding put a much higher load on it than most games or benchmarks. 

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[iamdarkyoshi]

yes I'm sure it's pretty strange but no lie this has been bugging me for like a month or so unceasing but running f@h almost immediately made it stop im pretty stoked on this

Make sure to at least finish the current project, possibly getting to 21 work units because you can get a shiny badge here on the forums

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